James 4

1 From where [come] disputes and (from where *no*) quarrels among you? Surely from there, out of the passions of you those warring in the members of you?

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Isn’t it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

2 You desire and not have; you kill and covet and not are able to obtain; You quarrel and wrangle; Not you have (now *k*) because not to ask you;

You crave, yet do not have, so you commit murder, so You covet, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

3 You ask and not receive, because wrongly you ask, that in the pleasures of you you may spend [it].

You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose – to spend what you get on your pleasures.

4 (adulterers — and *K*) Adulteresses! Surely you know that the friendship with the world hostility with God is? Who[ever] (maybe *N(k)O*) therefore shall choose a friend to be of the world, an enemy of God is appointed.

Unfaithful people! Don’t you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

5 Or think you that in vain the Scripture speaks? With envy yearns the Spirit that (he settled *N(k)O*) in us,

Do you suppose scripture means nothing when it says, ‘Envy results from the longings of the spirit which God has implanted within you?’

6 Greater however He gives grace; Therefore it says: God [the] proud opposes, to [the] humble however gives grace.

But he gives us greater grace; and that is why it says, – ‘God opposes the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’

7 do be subjected therefore to God. do resist (however *no*) the devil and he will flee from you,

Therefore submit to God. Stand up to the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 do draw near to God and He will draw near to you. do cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and do purify hearts, [you] double-minded.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillators!

9 do be grieved and do mourn and do weep; The laughter of you to mourning (should be turned *N(k)O*) and the joy to gloom.

Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!

10 do be humbled in the presence of (the *ko*) Lord and He will exalt you.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Not do speak against one another, brothers; The [one] speaking against [his] brother (or *N(k)O*) judging the brother of him speaks against [the] Law and judges [the] Law; If however [the] Law you judge, not you are a doer of [the] Law but a judge.

Do not disparage one another, friends. The person who disparages others, or passes judgment on them, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.

12 One there is Lawgiver (and Judge *NO*) who is being able to save and to destroy; You yourself (however *no*) who are (you who [are] judging *N(k)O*) the (neighbour? *N(K)O*)

There is only one lawgiver and judge – he who has the power both to save and to destroy. So then who are you to pass judgment on your neighbor?

13 do come now you who [are] saying; Today (or *N(k)O*) tomorrow (we will go *N(k)O*) into such city and (will spend *N(k)O*) there a year (one *K*) and (will trade *N(k)O*) and (will make a profit; *N(k)O*)

Listen to me, you who say ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money,’

14 [you] who not you know what [is] on the next day [is] What [is] (for *ko*) the life of you! A vapor just (you are *N(K)(o)*) for a little [while] appearing then (and *k*) also vanishing;

yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a puff of smoke that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

15 Instead [ought] to say you; If the Lord (shall wish *NK(o)*) both (we will live *N(k)O*) and (we will do *N(k)O*) this or that.

Instead you should say ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’

16 Now however you boast in the arrogance of you; All boasting such evil is.

But as it is, you are boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.

17 To [him] knowing therefore good to do and not doing [it], sin to him it is.

The person, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it – that is sin in them.